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Our Elders

About Our Elders

Elders

Craig Lair

Craig and his wife Wendy have attended Chenal since 1995. Craig and Wendy met at Harding Unversity. Craig is an attorney and graduate of Harding University and Duke University. Craig and Wendy have two children, Cooper and Sophie.

Eddie Creighton

Eddie Creighton has served as an elder at Chenal Valley Church since 2005. He owned a Ford auto dealership in Melbourne, Ark., for 35 years and before that taught school at Hot Springs Central and Little Rock Central High School. He and his wife, Katherine, have been married since 1967, and they moved to Little Rock in 2000 to be near their children, Ren and Jill, and five grandchildren. Eddie enjoys traveling, singing, playing piano, painting and spending time with family. He's a graduate of Benton High School and the University of Arkansas.

Kent Westbrook

Dr. Kent Westbrook attended the first service at Chenal Valley Church more than 20 years ago and became one of its first elders. He's been a cancer surgeon, educator and administrator at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences for 50 years, and he was instrumental in the creation of the Winthrop Rockefeller Cancer Institute at UAMS. He and his wife, Jonnie, married in 1961 and have three children — September, Coleman and Fara — and seven grandchildren. He's a graduate of the University of Arkansas and UAMS.

Roger Williams

Roger and Keri Williams, along with their two daughters Caysie and Kayla, have been a part of the Chenal Valley Church family since June of 2007. Roger grew up in Florence, Alabama, graduated from Mars Hill Bible School and then attended David Lipscomb University. After several moves to various locations, he and his family settled in the Little Rock, Arkansas area in 1998. Roger has been involved as a life group leader for several years and was blessed to become a shepherd of Chenal Valley Church in the spring of 2013.